CVE-2004-0880 Information

Description

getmail 4.x before 4.2.0 when run as root allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an mbox file.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109571883130372&w=2 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-32.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-553 http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/CHANGELOG https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17437